ADVANCE Adaptation: ADVANCE Appalachian

阿巴拉契亚州立大学（阿巴拉契亚）建议在阿巴拉契亚现有的包容性卓越倡议的基础上，该倡议在招聘和成功方面取得了显着的进展，但尚未成功地增加女性和代表性不足的种族和少数民族STEM教师的招聘和成功。ADVANCE APPALACHIAN适应项目将支持以下努力：1）通过使用包容性卓越框架培训主席和教师，将正在进行的制度气候变化纳入STEM部门; 2）通过开发新的专业发展和指导来支持STEM教师，并关注影响女性和代表性不足的种族和少数民族教师公平的问题;以及3）创建新的和改善现有的工作-生活整合资源和倡导整个校园。阿巴拉契亚是一个农村，硕士水平的机构在北卡罗来纳州。 该项目的目标是基于对机构人口统计和调查数据的分析，并调整已在其他ADVANCE机构证明成功的战略。 这些数据突出表明，在STEM教师职位中招聘和保留妇女和代表性不足的种族和少数民族方面存在缺陷，以及大学高级领导层和教师之间的结构性脱节，这可能会限制正在进行的公平努力的有效性。 对其他机构提交的成功的促进项目的分析表明，这一障碍并不是唯一的。因此，ADVANCE APPALACHIAN将实施培训部门和学院领导等活动，为所有STEM教师提供专业发展机会，并实施旨在针对阿巴拉契亚STEM女性支持不足的工作-生活举措，并有可能产生持续的变化，重塑阿巴拉契亚STEM女性的环境。 此外，本发明还提供了一种方法，“阿巴拉契亚进步”项目将与北卡罗来纳州美国教育理事会（ACE）结成伙伴关系妇女网络，以扩大导师网络和专业发展机会，为妇女干教师在阿巴拉契亚。NSF先进计划旨在促进性别平等，通过重点确定和消除组织障碍，阻碍充分参与和促进不同的学术机构的教师。 阻碍公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策、流程、做法以及组织文化和氛围中。 ADVANCE“适应”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织提供基于证据的战略适应和采用支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Appalachian State University (Appalachian) proposes to build on an existing Inclusive Excellence initiative at Appalachian that has produced significant gains in the recruitment and success of underrepresented minority students, but which has not yet successfully increased the recruitment and success of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority STEM faculty. The ADVANCE Adaptation project called ADVANCE APPALACHIAN will support efforts to: 1) incorporate ongoing institutional climate change into STEM departments by training of chairs and faculty using a framework of Inclusive Excellence; 2) support STEM faculty by developing new professional development and mentoring with attention to issues impacting equity for women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority faculty; and 3) create new and improve existing work-life integration resources and advocacy across campus. Appalachian is a rural, masters level institution in North Carolina. The goals of the project are based on analysis of institutional demographic and survey data and adapt strategies that have been demonstrated to be successful at other ADVANCE institutions. The data highlighted deficiencies in recruitment and retention of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities into STEM faculty positions, as well as structural disconnects between senior university leadership and faculty that may limit the effectiveness of ongoing equity efforts. Analysis of successful ADVANCE projects submitted by other institutions showed that this barrier is not unique. Therefore, ADVANCE APPALACHIAN will implement activities such as training department and college leadership, providing professional development opportunities for all STEM faculty, and implementing work-life initiatives designed to target deficiencies in support for women in STEM at Appalachian and have the potential to produce sustained change that would reshape the environment for women in STEM at Appalachian. In addition, the ADVANCE APPALACHIAN project will form a partnership with the North Carolina American Council on Education (ACE) Women’s Network to expand the network of mentors and professional development opportunities for women STEM faculty at Appalachian.The NSF ADVANCE program is designed to foster gender equity through a focus on the identification and elimination of organizational barriers that impede the full participation and advancement of diverse faculty in academic institutions. Organizational barriers that inhibit equity may exist in policies, processes, practices, and the organizational culture and climate. ADVANCE "Adaptation" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institution of higher education as well as non-academic, non-profit organizations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.